German Pork Roast - Schweinebraten

                                 German Pork Roast
                                     Schweinebraten

German Pork Roast is another of our typical sunday Lunch dishes. In germany we celebrate the 
sundays. Everything is closed, usually you go to church and when you are coming home, you have
a nice big lunch. Traditionally we have tea time then around 4 pm where we have coffee and 
cake. Dinner isn't to important on sundays lol. 

Here in the states I found the pork butt roast to work best for the Schweinebraten. I usually buy 
one when I see them on sale and keep them in my freezer till I decide to make it. Also, I found it's
easier to cut in the fat into diamonds when its still a bit frozen.


This is what you need:

- Pork butt roast

- 2 carrots, cut in 2 inch pieces

- 2 stacks celery, cut in 2 inch pieces

- 2 onions, roughly chopped

- 2-3 whole gloves of garlic (optional)

- handful of Allspice (optional)

- handful of Juniper Berry (optional)

- 2 Bay Leaves

- 1 bottle of beer

- Mustard

- salt, pepper, marjoram, paprika, ground caraway seeds 

- 750 ml of a mix of Vegetable and Beef Broth

- couple of slices old bread

This is how you do it:

Cut diamonds in your fat part of the roast. Mix the salt, pepper, paprika, marjoram and ground caraway seed in a bowl together and sprinkle it all over the roast so its completely covered. In a 
oven dish, place the carrots, Celery, garlic and onions. Also the Allspice, Bay leaves and Juniper Berries. Pan fry the Roast from all sides nice and brown. Transfer it over to the baking pan.

Roast it for 30 min on 400 Degrees until the roast gets a nice crunchy outside and the onions turn a bit brown. Now turn the heat down to 350 Fahrenheit and add the broth. Make sure the bread is covered with Liquid. 

Now leave the roast in the oven for 3 3 1/2 hrs or til the roasts internal temperature is around 160 degrees. 

Remove the Roast and cut into slices. Remove the Carrots and the Celery and strain the Allspice, Bay Leaves, Garlic and Juniper Berries out. Blend it with a blender. Thanks to the bread it should be nice and creamy already. 

Traditionally you serve the roast with potato dumplings. As side you can use Broccoli or Sauerkraut or blue cabbage. We also serve Spaetzle or Egg noodles with it and peas as the side. Whatever you want. 

Guten Appetit